Legal Opinion
Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 3, 1990No. 89-1298PublishedCited by 1,818 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
delivered the opinion of the Court. †
This case presents the question whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 829, as amended, 29 U. S. C. §1001 et seq., pre-empts a state common law claim that an employee was unlawfully discharged to prevent his attainment of benefits under a plan covered by ERISA.
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Petitioner Ingersoll-Rand Company employed respondent Perry McClendon as a salesman and distributor of construction equipment. In 1981, after McClendon had worked for the company for nine years and eight months, the company fired him citing a companywide…
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